City Mourns as Firefighter Falls to Death While Responding to Collision on Belt
Brooklynites awoke Monday morning to the news that a firefighter had fallen to his death the night before while responding to an accident on the Belt Parkway.
According to FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro, 30-year-old firefighter Steven Pollard — a member of Ladder Company 170 with a family legacy of firefighting — was killed while responding to a multiple-car accident at the Mill Basin Bridge on the westbound Belt Parkway that occurred on Sun., Jan. 6 at around 10 p.m.
“One car flipped over, two seriously injured males in one of the vehicles, the members of 170 had responded in the opposite direction, on the eastbound side and needed to cross over the roadway to assist the injured motorist,” he said in a press conference. “And then in the process of crossing over, Steven fell [through a gap, 52 feet] to the ground below.”